Courtroom sketches

is that blagojevich on the synthesizer

(massive xpost)

Oh great, now Robin Thicke has to pay royalties to that guy too.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48305000/jpg/_48305054_009769542-1.jpg

http://media.nbcsandiego.com/images/AzanoSketch.jpg

http://www.courtsketches.com/HuieFrancis6X2.JPG

http://i.imgur.com/udb1lJem.jpg

Hate it when people come in after the movie's already started.

ha marla and her shoes

http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/6aa22484-2f70-11e0-834f-00144feabdc0.img
Woody and Mia

2008:
Heather Mills doused Paul McCartney’s lawyer, Fiona Shackleton — or so it would seem. The press, including the artist, was barred and could not see it.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/24/business/24heather.600.jpg

PS Nice comparison of the 3 Whitey Bulger sketches.

Gotta say my favorite's the last (again, by Christine Cornell)-- it's not just the psychedelic colors, but those expressive faces! Conveying character & drama.

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2015/04/Supreme_Court_Gay_Marriage-0c44f.jpg&w=1484

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMOYcQ4WoAA2MT-.jpg

Got a new winner, everyone. Martin Shkreli:

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/12/22/business/db-whitecollar-web1/db-whitecollar-web1-master675.jpg

Via http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/business/dealbook/in-shkreli-case-a-company-lawyer-may-have-crossed-the-line.html

http://i.imgur.com/ZjQo0Ym.jpg

http://static.deathandtaxesmag.com/uploads/2017/06/pharma_bro_145903290-copy-1498607052-640x400.jpg

Same sketch artist who did Tom Brady.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/08/13/sports/13sketch-web-2/13sketch-web-2-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/14DBE/production/_91083458_mediaitem91083457.jpg

lonely defendants just thinkin baout things

2nd left looks whimsically happy

Illustration from the new YA mystery novel, Taylor Swift and the Ghost Attorney

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--5lzthp8e--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/exmrenanlu05oag8wczm.jpg

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170810135600-01-taylor-swift-courtroom-sketch-0810-super-169.jpg
http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170809071027-01-taylor-swift-courtroom-drawing-0808-super-169.jpg

http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article165544847.html

Martin Shkreli's court room sketch is me when the microwave beeps and the hot pockets are ready pic.twitter.com/2bckcCWznw

— Bob Bryan (@RobertBryan4) August 4, 2017

https://i.imgur.com/erpFYvC.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Pv0asa2.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/QdjZfhz.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uq9dNKH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/RgURDkb.png

https://i.imgur.com/d7EIDzu.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qb81cgN.jpg

something tells me that the Brooklyn courtroom sketch artist assigned to Smallville actress Allison Mack's Nxivm-related sex slavery trial is not a big fan of Allison Mack pic.twitter.com/DZx3pbzcHK

— audible gasp (@morninggloria) April 25, 2018

It’s the Tom Brady artist, isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/NZ5CoEo2pD

— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 25, 2018

I just remembered I actually emailed the sketch artist of that Robin Thicke one upthread to ask how much, and I guess it was some high-three-figure number and I never pulled the trigger. One day it will grace my office.

xps
not many courtroom artists are Toulouse Lautrec, but that's just taking the piss!

https://i.imgur.com/wT416B4.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/2itmwkj.jpg

🗣🎙 pic.twitter.com/Vlvyq6qOAE

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) September 17, 2019

Peru ex-president denied bail in U.S., wife dragged from court after outburst https://t.co/KBwZ0Dq6BI pic.twitter.com/GRCwQcWZHg

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 13, 2019

Andrew and I have both mentioned upthread (about ten years ago) our local friend, John, who works freelance as a courtroom sketch artist. Yesterday, John worked a case involving *takes a deep breath* an Arizona attorney, who's also the elected Maricopa County assessor, accused of bringing pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to Arkansas and forced/paid them to give up their babies for adoption.

Some of his sketches are featured here. And from John's Instagram account (paintings for sale!), he describes what it's like to keep one toe dipped in this unique profession:

...I showed up early and Judge Wiederman allowed me in the empty courtroom to get a head-start on the backgrounds. It was a gamble that the hearing would last long enough to draw. A group of about six people were brought in ahead of the man we were there for, so I started sketching a defendant that vaguely resembled him out of an abundance of caution.

I ended up with two that were useable, a prosecutor, that defendant I mentioned and that unused start of the background. The most detailed one was the first one I started. In all I was in the court about 5 hours.

https://i.imgur.com/qSQ9iVw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yZX0gW2.jpg

lmao at the courtroom sketch of Weinstein's nudes pic.twitter.com/Uj7cL04X1m

— Nick “Thunder” Wiger (@nickwiger) February 5, 2020

Is this some kind of niche deviantART fantasy or is Ghislaine Maxwell really obsessively eyefucking a court sketch artist? pic.twitter.com/2GfwWHOW4q

— The Man Who Shot Liberty Mutual (@Decervelage) December 7, 2021

our local artist friend John is back at it, this time sketching the josh duggar child porn trial.
https://www.nwahomepage.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2021/12/Josh-Duggar-Trial-2.jpg?w=900

plenty more to see if you gis but here's one with the shithead himself.

Ex-CIA coder behind WikiLeaks ‘Vault 7’ cache found guilty of espionage https://t.co/p6n4Cq5Bu7

— Dr. Sherifa Zuhur (@SherifaZuhur) July 14, 2022

https://cdn.greatlifepublishing.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/01150952/jsus-2-728x409.jpg

Did glem gormwald sell him out too

https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/17A1/production/_128394060_elonmuskdrawing.png

have they stopped teaching life drawing with models in art colleges these days? lol

Big question to potential jurors in the ComEd corruption trial: Do you have the time for this? https://t.co/FN4LIFrsji via @politico pic.twitter.com/Eet6Q19JsC

— Shia Kapos (@ShiaKapos) March 15, 2023

Donald Trump during his arraignment. Courtroom sketch by 🎨 Jane Rosenberg pic.twitter.com/DdfXkHhnUA

— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) April 4, 2023

lol he's like a jaundiced Grinch.

aren't there actual photographs of this thing? do they still do the courtroom sketch for fun anyway?

Hey I'm having fun

Pretty sure cameras, still or motion, are still not allowed in most courtrooms. Our local courthouse requires you to put your cell phone in a locker.

Not allowed in federal courtrooms either, so it'll be all sketches if Trump ever gets that call.

They allowed a couple photographers in before the hearing began, but then booted them... so there are some real photos, but not of the arraignment itself

if you were a courtroom sketch artist who couldn't be bothered schlepping all the way to the courthouse, it must have been tempting to just stat at home, wait for the pre-arraignment photographs to appear on twitter and then just base your sketch on them. It's not like anyone's appearance is going to have changed too dramatically in the interim.

Just wait for the AI sketchers